There are boat shows, and then there is the Mystic WoodenBoat Show in Mystic, Connecticut. It is less an exhibition than a pilgrimage—a gathering place where history is not displayed behind glass but continues to live, breathe, and float.
Hosted at Mystic Seaport Museum, the show takes place in what feels like a shipbuilding village preserved from another century. Rather than polished convention halls filled with fiberglass production boats, visitors wander through weathered workshops where every building...
There comes a point in every sailor's life when the ocean quits handing out quizzes and decides it's time for the final exam.
This was ours.
The boat rolled and pitched uneasily at anchor while the wind moaned through the rigging like it already knew the answers and wasn't about to share them. Out beyond the reef, the pass we'd have to navigate looked less like an entrance and more like a giant flushing toilet. White...
Reflecting nowadays, I tend to doubt now my students learnt anything much, during my early years teaching. Certainly, having thought that teaching yachting on...
The call for entries for boot Düsseldorf’s “ocean tribute” Award is now open HERE for all international research projects, innovative concepts and start-ups. The...
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The Boat Geeks #44 - "Sailor Barry" Collins, popular YouTuber and Sail Cargo entrepreneur.
Barry has long been harboring...
The Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA) in partnership with Lorraine’s Café Black Point Exumas will once again host the 4th Annual Bahamas Cruisers Gathering...
Reflecting nowadays, I tend to doubt now my students learnt anything much, during my early years teaching. Certainly, having thought that teaching yachting on...
The call for entries for boot Düsseldorf’s “ocean tribute” Award is now open HERE for all international research projects, innovative concepts and start-ups. The...
Kathy and Ralph, experienced adventurers, spent their retirement sailing aboard Simplicity, spending summers in New England and embracing the warmth of Caribbean winters. Their final voyage with the Salty Dawg Sailing Association crew took an unthinkable turn as Simplicity was found abandoned in St. Vincent, bearing chilling evidence of a violent struggle.
My dear friend Tobey is in a bad way. He is someone who spent his life racing and riding from Canada to Bonneville living life to the greatest glory of freedom and service to others...
Land was only four or five miles ahead of me.
It had to be.
The fact that I couldn't see a blessed thing out there didn't change the mathematics of the situation. According to every calculation I'd made, every noon sight...
There are boat shows, and then there is the Mystic WoodenBoat Show in Mystic, Connecticut. It is less an exhibition than a pilgrimage—a gathering place where history is not displayed behind glass but continues to live, breathe, and float.
Hosted at Mystic...
There comes a point in every sailor's life when the ocean quits handing out quizzes and decides it's time for the final exam.
This was ours.
The boat rolled and pitched uneasily at anchor while the wind moaned through the rigging...
Reflecting nowadays, I tend to doubt now my students learnt anything much, during my early years teaching. Certainly, having thought that teaching yachting on an RYA Coastal Skipper or Yacht master course was about going offshore in all weathers....